Dual Sport Updates

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On April 15, at the Trail of 100 Giants in the Sequoia NF, President Clintonproclaimed much of the areas containing the trails used in our upcomingSequoia ride as a new national monument. On January 1st, 2001, motorized usewill no longer be allowed. This will be your last year to enjoy thosetrails. Our Riders of the Round Table event scheduled in October completelyutilizes trails in this new monument and will no longer be offered afterthis year. We hope to see you at those two rides. Our Sequoia ScenicChallenge will continue each year at an earlier date from Lake Isabellautilizing the lower forest trails and road systems.

There is a powerful coalition of local users forming to perhaps prevent thismonument from happening and a meeting has been announced for this Tuesday,May 2nd, at Hodel's Restaurant in Bakersfield at 7:00 pm. I hope to attendalong with you and our fellow enthusiasts. For more info, call Dick Taylorat: 661-327-0216. I will keep you informed as they will need our donationsfor lawyer fees.

The following weekend after this, May 6 & 7 is our "Trails of the Tejon"ride from Lebec/Gorman located atop Interstate 5. We will be in the parkinglot of the Best Rest Inn and the Flying "J" Truck Stop for sign-ups. I'll bespending the next several days scouting and charting new routes for two daysof fun and adventure. Please attend!

Visit http://www.dualdogs.com today for more ride information and entry formprint outs. We hope to see you at our Sequoia rides as it will be your lastopportunity to traverse the best trails in the Southern Sierra Nevada's.---------------------------------------More from Dual Dogs:Dear Dual Sport friends,

It appears I will be out of town May 2nd through the 4th missing thecoalition meeting in Bakersfield. Are there any of you out there who canattend and represent Team Dual Dogs with our support and be able to reportback the information needed? It would be most appreciated.

Some facts and information to present:We have in our database over 3000 Dual Sport enthusiasts and 200 aftermarketmarketing managers nationwide. 2000 of those are our event participants andlocal enthusiasts, our email address book is near 400 and growing.

We have used trails and roads within the Sequoia National Forest and itsMonument for ten years with recorded use and annual volunteer trail worktotaling hundreds of man hours.

We can help with a donation drive and any quick response with our emailmembers. Our events are welcome to any coalition members wanting to attendand set-up any booth for a donation drive. We want to help.

Clark_Mason

Our Democratic President in action repaying all those environmentalists for their $ in the name of saving our nations historic places for "future generations". I personally invested heavily in fighting the total erosinon of our sport for what I bleieve are false claims and using public histeria in place of logic and fact. But now the Deomcrats are brainwashing our children on the "fact that we are most certinly destroying our planet" with little facts. The battle is coming to an end and the numbers and political slant are not in our favor its taken 15 years of steam out of me and I getting tired and pissed at our national agenda and its furtherance base on politics and not fact. We are on the verge of losing access to all public lands for our sport forever. It will be fun at the local track with 10,000 others on any given day. I'v never been to a track and have ridden off road for more years than I care to recall.